Late Tuesday night, Sydney time, saw the launch of Elite: Dangerous, the crowd-funded sequel to the classic space trading action game.Unlike recent efforts from some more well-heeled publishers, Frontier Developments’ launch went without fault, my pre-release gamma 2 version of the game seamlessly updating to the 1.0 retail release as the servers switched over.Elite: Dangerous … Continue Reading ››
Never in the history of video games have racing fans been gifted such an enormous playground as they have in Ubisoft’s The Crew.With the open road ahead of them players can push the pedal to the metal and embark on a road trip from the east coast of the United States to the west in … Continue Reading ››
Rabbids Invasion is series of animated shorts produced by Ubisoft in association with Nickelodeon. The cartoons are based on Ubisoft’s Raving Rabbids video games, themselves a spin-off from the classic Rayman franchise.The Rabbids, themselves are basically foot-high stylised rabbit-like creatures that stand on two legs. They don’t speak English, they just utter words in their … Continue Reading ››
It's been a challenging few weeks for Ubisoft, with the less-than gracious launch of Assassin’s Creed: Unity casting a bit of a shadow over things. The busy publisher’s next release is now upon us: The Crew- an online racer with RPG aspirations.I say busy because, whilst the French publisher has been hitting the headlines pretty … Continue Reading ››
Since 2007, over the course of six major releases and a handful of mobile and spin-off games, the Assassin’s Creed saga has been enthralling players.For the uninitiated, these fictional historic action-adventures tell the tales of a centuries old conflict between the Templar order and the Assassin’s brotherhood.Viewed in third-person, in each game, players control an … Continue Reading ››
PAX Australia is unlike any other gaming show in the Asia-Pacific region. For the last two years it’s been a celebration of games, from mainstream hits like Far Cry 4, to pen and paper affairs like Dungeons and Dragons.Earlier this month I attended PAX Australia 2014, the second time Melbourne has hosted the prestigious gaming … Continue Reading ››
I’d held off getting a PlayStation Vita. I own two PSPs- an original phat one and one of those lighter ones with a better screen. I’ve hardly used either of them.I love the idea of being able to play games anywhere, but the opportunity to actually do so seldom arises for me. The only time … Continue Reading ››
I’ve been dabbling in Elite: Dangerous, Frontier Developments’ space trading action MMO, all through the beta cycle.The original Elite, back in the early 80s, pretty much introduced me to the concept of open-world adventuring- something taken for granted these days.Elite: Dangerous puts players at the controls of a starship and asks nothing of them but … Continue Reading ››
